Hi Mariah!
Welcome!
I just took a look at your website -- it's beautiful and you're obviously doing great stuff with your horses! Loved your blog entry about undemanding time; that was just lovely.
I think there are a fair number of people here who have used (and some who still use) a number of Parelli methods -- you'll find, I expect, some conversation about pressure vs. rewards based training and how people have found, in their own understanding and experience, how Parelli has worked that. You may not agree with everything!
But, one of the amazingly cool things about this forum is that people are, like you, excited about learning -- about, with, and from each other and our horses, and that no one here has decided that there is one way to do anything. So we're all learning all the time and no one feels like they've cornered the market on "the" way.
For me, this forum has been a life line -- a group of the nicest people I've met anywhere, (and truly the kindest group I've ever come across in the horse world!) with perspectives coming from first time horse owners to longtime pro trainers and everything in between, from all over the world. Very open, very curious, very thoughtful, very supportive.
And I think you'll find many of the people here are approaching dressage as you are -- as a way to build strength, flexibility, confidence, and our horses' abilities to be "in" their bodies.
I think you'll have both lots to learn from and lots to add to the conversation!
Glad you're here.
All the best,
Leigh